Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-28
Gossip.

orchid, t0Z0, was given last week IN
London tor cypripedium Stonei platy.
tenium.
Col r. G.. Iugersoll's eldest daughter
is very beautiful young woman, and
is said to have the purest and best
soprano voice in New York.
Sam Jones says: 81 don't know
where hell is. / don't want to know,
for amt headin' that way. l am going
to let them fellers as are goin' thar find
out"
A Big Rapids. Mich, man has been
prosecuted for keeping his son out of
school and required to give a Sl00 bond
that he will send the boy to school
twenty weeks in the year.
Uncle Dick Bennett, of Bentonville,
Mo-, who used TO be known as "Diclx
Bennett, the quarter horse racer, joined
the Christian Church and was immersed
on Sunday last. Uncle Dick is 100
years old and very vigorous.
1t would not be an easy job for per-
son to shake the dust of New York IRON
his feet. Last week as many as 80, 900
carloads of dust and debris, with an oc.
casional diamond, were swept up and
hauled 10 the dumping grounds.
The old time. Bakers Hotel, of East
Chester, N. Y, relic of Revolutionary
times, was burned on Wednesday night,
and yesterday lot of Spanish coin over
200 years old was found buried in the
chinney.place. Altogether S575 was
found.
Mr.. Anderson Gretchett, the celebrat.
ed London surgeon, was recently offered
fee of 5000, probably the largest
medical honorarium on record, to go to
India to treat one of the native princes.
After consideration he declined the
offer.
Victoriano, an Indian of San Jacinto,
CAL, once chief of the Seranos, is said
to be at least l25 years old. His narra-
tion of scenes at the San Gabriel Mis-.
sion, where he worked when boy con-
firms this belief His mind is active
and his memory good.
Count Kalnoky is known in st. Peters.
burg as man of few words, not accus-
toned to threaten or bluster, but certain
TO do what he saYs. He dislikes pub
licity, but he mingles a great deal in
society and goes several times q week to
the opera. He is particularly cheerful
in company, is brilliant conversation
alist and linguist. speaks most ilre.
proschable English and has great charm
of manner.
The Rev. Mr.. Springer, assistant rec.
tor of an aristocratic Episcopal Church
in Chicago, who recently noarly lost
his reason from overwork and meagre
salary, has been given vacation. His
pittauce of $3.50 year has been raised
to more respectable sum, and it begins
to look as though the good man might
escape insanity and starvation. The
$4,000 per annum rector is still in Eu.
rope.
A Georgia man refused to take stock
in new railroad because he was op.
posed to Sunday trains. The railroad
was built through his land increasing
its value 100 per cent. To ease his con.
science he has given the land to his son,
with the understanding that it shall be
sold, and the proceeds used for the bene.
fit of the poor. His neighbors are will
ing to bet that he considers himself the
only really poor person in the world.
A citizen of Jersey City has recovered
a verdict of 81, 800 as ainst the Board of
Health, Inspector and others. Five OF
his children died of malignant fever,
and he claimed that their loss was due
to the fact that night soil was dumped
| by contractors, with the permission OF
the City Health Inspector, on lots ad-
joining his. Judge Knapp charged the
| jury that no damage could be based on
the fatalities in the family, although
allowance might be made for the doc
tors fees and funeral expenses.
Speaking of the recent attempt to
kill him. poor old Bazine said TO Lon
don Telegraph correspondent that he
had come to resign himself during the
past years to his painful fate, which
doomed him to be an obligatory and en-
forced victim, sort of consolatory
holocaust, for a defeat which was in.
evitable. He once more insisted that
had Marshal McMahon helped him
in time things would have taken diff.
ferent turn, and he took credit to him.
self for having avoided bombardment
which would have caused the destruction
OF thousands OF men.
An Albany barber says that there is
not half the danger in being shaved from
the public cups in barber shop as in
being brushed with the public halr.brush.
He says: "Half of the badness in the
world is caused by the indiscriminate
use of brushes in barber shops. Bald.
ness is usually preceded by scaling of
the head. This is a sort of disease
When q barber brushes a mans hair
whose scalp is diseased and uses the
same brush on a healthy scalp, what
can you expect? That is why SO few
women are bald. They never go to bar.
ber shops.
The San Francisco Eranliner calls
upon all adult male citizens to boycott
the plug hat and to indulge in the use of
hair oil. "Much, it says, ''as we some.
times laugh IL our sleeves at the vanity
of using hair oil, yet the experience of
the African Nubians, who consume all
the grease they can get on their woolly
heads, would seem to favor the practice
in preference to water, which most gen
orally contains more or less matter that
is injurious to the hair. There is no
badness among the Nubians, whose hair
is creased stiff all the time, besides living
in the scorching sum-"
A romantic issue to a recent Nihilist
trial is reported from Moscow. The
accused was medical student who had
been detected while attempting to con.
ceal explosives in private house. The
owners daughter had to appear as a
witness against him, and upon her testi.
mony he was sentenced to twenty years
hard labor in the Siberian mines. Imme-
diately after the proceedings were over
the girl pawned the family jewels,
bribed six Cossacls who had charge of
the condemned man, and helped him
to escape. She accompanied him to
Switzerland, with the intention of retir-
ing into convent; but she changed her
mind on the way. They have inst been
The women in the Sultan's seraglio at